Important Dates
January 17
HAS Student Paper Competition Deadline
March 3
Abstract Submission Deadline
June 5
Registration Deadline for Speakers
May 5
Poster Submission Deadline
June 15
Refund/Cancellation Deadline

The goal of INFORMS Healthcare 2017 is to bring together academic researchers in “healthcare analytics” and industry stakeholders who are applying this research to share information and improve the delivery of effective healthcare. The health sector is catching up fast but still lags behind other industries such as airlines, hotel chains, and retail in the adoption of systematic and quantitative analysis used in decision support, and this conference will help to bridge the informational gap. The conference aims to bring a cross-cultural view of healthcare systems worldwide and the research and applications designed to improve these systems in areas such as:
- New methods associated with defining value in healthcare
- Incorporation of O.R. and industrial engineering in healthcare delivery
- Intersection of healthcare and public health to provide a more “population” perspective on value
- Medical decision making
- Computational optimization
- Patient wait time guarantees
- Effective use of electronic health records
- Delivering healthcare in developing countries
Contributions in synergistic fields are also welcome: healthcare policy, clinical decision making, global health, therapy and treatment delivery, public health, and health informatics.
General Chair
Joris van de Klundert
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Institute of Health Policy & Management
vandeklundert@bmg.eur.nl
Program Chairs
Edwin Romeijn
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
edwin.romeijn@isye.gatech.edu
Sandra Sulz
Institute of Health Policy & Management
Erasmus University Rotterdam
sulz@bmg.eur.nl
Invited Session
Chairs
Disease and Treatment Modeling
Omid Nohadani
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Northwestern University
nohadani@northwestern.edu
Healthcare Data Analytics and Machine Learning
Mohsen Bayati
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
bayati@stanford.edu
Health and Humanitarian Systems
Julie Swann
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
julie.swann@isye.gatech.edu
Health Information Technology and Management
Mohan Lal Tarun
Mayo Clinic Rochester
MohanLal.Tarun@mayo.edu
Health Operations Management
Nan Kong
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
nkong@purdue.edu
Vishal Ahuja
Cox School of Business
Southern Methodist University
vahuja@smu.edu
Disparities in Health/Low and Middle Income Settings/ Global Health
Hari Balasubramanian
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
hbalasubraman@ecs.umass.edu
Chaitra Gopalappa
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
chaitrag@umass.edu
Medical Decision Making
Oguzhan Alagoz
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
alagoz@engr.wisc.edu
Personalized Medicine
Anil Aswani
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California-Berkeley
aaswani@ieor.berkeley.edu
Public Health and Policy Making
Diwakar Gupta
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Minnesota
guptad@umn.edu
HAS Sponsored Paper Competition
Chairs
Sarang Deo
Indian School of Business
sarang_deo@isb.edu
Greg Zaric
Ivey Business School
University of Western Ontario
gzaric@ivey.uwo.ca
Sponsored Session
Chair
Qingxia Kong
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University Rotterdam
q.kong@rsm.nl
INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society
Mehmet U.S. Ayvaci
University of Texas at Dallas
Poster Sessions
Chair
Erwin Hans
Faculty of Behavioural, Management & Social Sciences
University of Twente
e.w.hans@utwente.nl
Advisory Committee
Jan Hazelzet
Erasmus MC
Erasmus University Rotterdam
j.a.hazelzet@erasmusmc.nl
Vikram Tiwari
School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
vikram.tiwari@vanderbilt.edu
Christos Vasilakis
School of Management
University of Bath
c.vasilakis@bath.ac.uk
Local Committee
Kristiaan Glorie
Department of Mathematics
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
km.glorie@vu.nl
Harwin de Vries
Erasmus School of Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam
hdevries@ese.eur.nl